{"id":13010,"date":"2024-08-19T10:25:01","date_gmt":"2024-08-19T10:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/?p=13010"},"modified":"2024-08-19T10:25:01","modified_gmt":"2024-08-19T10:25:01","slug":"brickbat-electrifying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/?p=13010","title":{"rendered":"Brickbat: Electrifying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"img-wrap\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d2eehagpk5cl65.cloudfront.net\/img\/c800x450-w800-q60\/uploads\/2024\/08\/dreamstime_xxl_206104298-800x450.jpg\" style=\"max-width: 100%;height: auto\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" alt=\"A row of yellow school buses in a parking lot in Bethesda, Maryland | Grandbrothers | Dreamstime.com\" \/><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Electrical college buses that have been supposed to chop one Maryland county college system&#8217;s transit prices in half truly <a href=\"https:\/\/wtop.com\/montgomery-county\/2024\/07\/electric-school-buses-led-to-millions-in-wasteful-spending-montgomery-co-ig-says\/\">cost the system<\/a> tens of millions of {dollars}. A report by the Montgomery County Workplace of the Inspector Basic discovered the buses have been usually delivered late and ceaselessly had mechanical points that &#8220;rendered them inoperable for prolonged intervals.&#8221; Consequently, the varsity system needed to spend greater than $14.7 million to purchase 90 diesel buses to cowl routes. The delays and restore points entitled the varsity system to greater than $372,000 in penalties from the contractor, however no administrator ever pursued it.<\/p>\n<p>The put up <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2024\/08\/19\/brickbat-electrifying\/\">Brickbat: Electrifying<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\">Reason.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2024\/08\/19\/brickbat-electrifying\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electrical college buses that have been supposed to chop one Maryland county college system&#8217;s transit prices in half truly cost the system tens of millions of {dollars}. A report by the Montgomery County Workplace of the Inspector Basic discovered the buses have been usually delivered late and ceaselessly had mechanical points that &#8220;rendered them inoperable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13012,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[6062,10297],"class_list":["post-13010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-brickbat","tag-electrifying"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}